PROST groups and people

PROST research groups

Process Control Group

Chemical Engineering, NTNU

Professor Sigurd Skogestad (Head of PROST)

Phone: +47-735-94154

Fax: +47-735-94080

e-mail: skoge@chembio.ntnu.no

Main research areas:

Controllability of processes (achievable control performance)
Plantwide control, dynamics and optimization
Design and control of distillation processes, continuous and batch

Professor Heinz Preisig

Associate Professor Tore Haug-Warberg

Process Modelling and Simulation Group

Chemical Engineering, NTNU

Professor Terje Hertzberg

Phone: +47-735-94113

Fax: +47-735-94080

e-mail: thz@chembio.ntnu.no

Main research areas:

Numerical methods and strategies in dynamic process simulation and optimization
Computer-aided process modelling
Process model validation and estimation of statistical uncertainty in process simulations

Process Cybernetics Group

Engineering Cybernetics, Electical Engineering, NTNU

Professor Bjarne A. Foss

Phone: +47-735-94476

Fax: +47-735-94399

e-mail: Bjarne.Foss@itk.ntnu.no

Professor Morten Hovd

Phone: +47-735-91426

Fax: +47-735-94399

e-mail: Morten.Hovd@itk.ntnu.no

Main research areas:

Modelling methods and identification
Optimization-based process control and industrial applications
Plant operation

Process Integration Group

Mechanical Engineering, NTNU

Professor Truls Gundersen

Phone: +47-735-92700

Fax: +47-735-98390

e-mail: truls.gundersen@tev.ntnu.no

Main research areas:

Optimal disgn and operation of heat exchanger networks
Use of optimization methods in process integration and design
Energy and water management of integrated processes

SINTEF Process Systems Engineering Group

SINTEF Chemical Engineering

Research Manager Ole Wærnes

Phone: +47

e-mail: Ole.Warnes@chem.sintef.no

Phone: +47-735-94128 (Research scientist Thor Mejdell)

Fax: +47-735-96995

Main research areas in process systems engineering:

Process modelling and simulation
Process evaluation and concept studies
Empirical modelling and estimation

In addition to the process systems engineering activities, the department has important activities within reactor and separation technologies.

SINTEF Process Control Group

SINTEF Automatic Control

Research Manager Sture Holmstrøm

Phone: +47-735-94370

Phone: +47-735-94387 (Research scientist Ivar J. Halvorsen)

Fax: +47-735-94399

e-mail: Sture.Holmstrom@ecy.sintef.no

Main research areas in process systems engineering:

Tools for identification and controller tuning
Industrial applications of process control
modelling and development of dynamic simulators

In addition, the department has activities in other aspects of control systems, including motion control, operator support systems, architectures and methodology for distributed control systems, and reliability of control systems.

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